Course you realize that a good chunk of the people here are smart enough to know that right? You just seemed to be overly insulting.

Aspergers would explain alot of things for me, but so does my current clinical diagnosis of:

• BiPolar (2) Disorder

• Social Phobia

• Generalized Anxiety Disorder

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To whom are you addressing that?

Of course it was. If you read closely, you'll see what it really is bashing is Internet losers who sit around and mope that they have some (self diagnosed) mental disorder.

It also makes a minor point that many of the so called diseases are nothing but a collection of symptoms with no real (or known) cause. One who is different than the norm is often labeled something. If most people were anti-social, then perhaps social people would be given the name of some disease.

Again, the article doesn't claim that the condition doesn't exist.

My Community Support Worker was here yesterday, and I was talking with him about the closure of the cafe and some of the suggestions people here had made. We've decided to use this as an opportunity to wean me off this particular ritual and just do the shopping. It's probably going to take longer than the time before the cafe closes to do this though, so what we decided on was moving to the park, and slowly reducing the ammount of time I spend there before going to the supermarket, until I don't go to the park at all. We pretty much decided do do exactly what you said, and start with take-away coffee while the cafe is still there, and then transition to my own coffee afterwards.

Now I just need to work it all into my WRAP. Bleh, I hate paperwork

AS very rarely causes suffering. Usually, the suffering is caused by other people.

Did you go through chemotherapy?

No, but Jhuuskon's post makes it appear as if he is saying that anyone who posts their diseases on the internet has been 'self-diagnosed' with it.

I diagnose myself before I see a doctor. If my own diagnosis is major, I go see my doctor. If it's minor, I don't.
"Hmm, blood in my urine? Must be from all that blue rare steak. Nothing to worry about."

Sometimes he leaves it up to me anyways.
Me: "Hey doc, I have some minor chest pains and they've been happening for quite some times. What could it be?"
Doc: "Hmm.... do you drink coffee?"
Me: "Sometimes."
Doc: "You know, caffeine is bad for you."
END OF EXAMINATION

Another time was similar, with a weird rash I had.
Doc: "Do you drink whiskey?"
Me: "Uhh, yeah."
Doc: "Rub this on rash writes prescription for medicated cream that no longer exists and baffles the pharmacist."
Doc: "Use shampoo."

..ok, doc! My doctor is a paki

Whether or not you use a smilie next to your comment, you're still racist.